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and tried to clean off. The king, so far from being 

 angry, called Lord Chesterfield and another lord (I 

 think Goldsworthy) to come and look up at the place, 

 when the king desired the miller to open it again, and 

 down came much on them, to the sport of his Majesty ! 

 Another time a Mrs. Scott, nurse to Queen Charlotte, 

 lay in an adjacent room, whilst nursing his present 

 Majesty, King George IV. The king, who loved a joke, 

 slipped out of bed, and took away from the nurse, un- 

 perceived, the child to his own bed, much to the wonder- 

 ment and dismay of the nurse, of whom the queen was 

 jealous, perhaps not without some cause. 



"Saturday, 17th. Mr. Pachefrom Mardyke, Hot- 

 well Koad, Bristol, called and bought some shells, &c., 

 lls. Mr. Watts, a gentleman (from, I believe, North- 

 amptonshire), called and bought some shells, and said 

 his sons were botanists. 



"Sunday, 18th. Mr. Chambers and Mr. Johnson 

 called, and I went with them botanizing to Thong 

 and Shorne. They both were good draughtsmen, and 

 wanted plants only to draw. We found in bloom at 

 Shorne Eabbit Warren the Narcissus poeticus ; and 

 on the verge of a chalk pit, one field south of Shorne 

 Workhouse, going up Gad's Hill, the Orchis fusca, 

 hitherto called Orchis militaris ; on the bank under 

 a broom in flower, viz. about three feet off. In the 

 field above, being the west side of Gad's Hill Wood on 

 the south side of the Dover road, I planted a spider 

 orchis as a breeder. On the north side of the turnpike 

 road, in a small wood, or part of a wood, called Chapel 

 Wood, we found the Orchis fusca, the bird's nest, the 

 oxslip, the cowslip, and other scarce plants. Caught 

 the grizzle butterfly in Thong Lodge Field. 



